Jane Tomlinson
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Jane Tomlinson MBE is a British campaigner and fund raiser for cancer charities.
Jane has advanced metastatic breast cancer, the disease spread is extensive. The disease was diagnosed incurable on 31 August 2000.
In the last six years Jane has had 4 courses of chemotherapy the last one consisting of Taxol will be completed on 27 April. Jane is also taking courses of the cancer drug Herceptin.
As a result of the drug regimes Jane has chronic heart disease.
Jane is from Rothwell, in Leeds, Great Britain. She is the only person with incurable cancer to complete a full Ironman (4km Swim, 180Km bike ride and full marathon – to be done inside 17 hours). Has completed two half Ironmans, the London Marathon 3 times (She is the only person ever to take part in a marathon whilst on Chemotherapy), the New York Marathon and three London Triathlons.
Awarded the MBE by the Queen in 2003, winner of the Helen Rollason Award at the BBC in 2002, twice recognised at the Sportswoman of the Year Awards, won a Great Briton Award and voted the most Inspirational Woman in Britain in 2003. In January 2005 she was awarded Greatest Briton in Campaigning 2004.
The first race Jane took part in was the 5 km Race for Life in May 2001, and 5 years on is participating in a bike ride that totals a distance of 6781.8 km.
Jane graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with a postgraduate certificate in medical imaging practice in 2002, and works as a radiographer at Leeds General Infirmary.
On Thursday 29 June 2006, Jane set off on her biggest fundraising challenge yet - a gruelling 4200 miles cycle ride across the United States, which was the greatest endurance feat ever to be attempted by someone with terminal cancer. Her aim is to raise over £1,250,000 (US$2million) for UK and American based cancer and children's charities. Jane completed this task on Friday 1 September 2006 when she arrived in New York.
